Friday 905P Eastern Time: . David Weidner, WSJ MarketWatch, in re: Goldman Sachs in trouble again. Why is Lloyd Blankfein still smiling? Why is the stock soggy like the market? Company now faces $3.4 bil in legal fees. Why did Blankfein shake Raj Rajaratnam's hand in court? Like a scene from The Godfather: the kiss of death. Perhaps because Blankfein knows so much that the board is afraid to remove him.  He looks sinister, but is careful not to say anything too dumb (except, "We're doing God's work").

Friday 920P Eastern Time:  .Miguel Helft, NYT, in re: the rise of Silican Valley competition by buying up the startup for talent, then folding the startup. New way to become a multimillionaire.

Friday 935P Eastern Time: .Rufus Phillips, Why Vietnam Matters;  Bill Roggio, Long War Journal; Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy blog, in re: USAID is forbidden to build lodgings or in any way assist people who want to abandon Taliban and work with the US and international forces.  Nonetheless, a "re-integration program" is working excellently in Colombia right now. What are USAID and State doing?

Friday 950P Eastern Time:  .continued. Revelations in Dawn.  

Friday 1005P (705P Pacific Time):  .Paul Vigna, WSJ, in re: Market week soggy; poor jobs, housing, production numbers. The uncertain Q2 and the trouble with  Greek and Spanish debt.

Friday 1020P (720P Pacific Time):  .Sebastian Gorka, FDD, in re: bin Laden's death and the rise of the cult of bin Laden/Che Guevara. What it means for the Arab Spring.  Che and ObL were romantics: led by example, stirred up passions, lived fast/died young.  Mao had a long-term vision, methodically built a base and expanded to take over all of Mainland China.  Comparable to Mao are the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah.  Our real enemies.

Friday 1035P (735P Pacific Time):  .Josh Kron NYT, in Kampala, Uganda, in re: story of DDT in Africa: wrecking organic farming, limited  success against malaria.

Friday 1050P (750P Pacific Time):  .Rita Cosby, Quiet Hero, in re:  Poland during the war; the resistance in Warsaw; the Poland of today: depopulated and scarred.

Friday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): .Elizabeth Rosenthal, NYT, in re: the ring-necked parakeets that are taking over London during global warming? In their tens of thousands, feral or wild.

Friday 1120P (820P Pacific Time): .Josh Kraushaar, National Journal, in re: the unintended consequences of Citizens United is a decline in the union power of the Democratic Party.

Friday 1135P (835P Pacific Time): .Raya Jawardhana, author, in re: the significance of the magma ocean discovered underneath the surface of Io, Jupiter's moon - the most volcanic moon in the galaxy, and more volcanic than Earth.

Friday 1150P (850P Pacific Time):  .Mark Schroeder, Stratfor.com, in re: the investiture of the new president of Côte d'Ivoire attended tomorrow by Sarkozy of France and Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria.

Friday/Sat 1205A (905 Pacific Time):  .John Loftus, America's Nazi Secrets, in re: WikiLeaks in Pakistan in Dawn newspaper reveal Pakistani complicity in drones; WikiLeaks at Gitmo reveal interrogation success.

Friday/Sat  1220A (920 Pacific Time): .Andrew Bast, Newsweek, in re: Pakistan's new nuke facility and its ambition to grow its nuclear arsenal

Friday/Sat  1235A (935P Pacific Time):  .Robert Zubrin, WSJ, Mars society, in re: three-phase mission to Mars with Falcon 9 and Drago capsule in the next ten years.

Friday/Sat  1250A  (950P Pacific Time): Exeunt.

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Music

Hour 1
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, by Hans Zimmer
I, Robot, by Marco Beltrami
Prince of Persia, by Harry Gregson

Hour 2
Mask of Zorro, by James Horner
Motorcycle Diaries, by Gustavo Santaolalla
Hotel Rwanda, by various artists
Schindler's List, by John Williams

Hour 3
The New World, by James Horner
Cindarella Man, by Thomas Newman
X-Files, by Marc Snow
Tears of the Sun, by Hans Zimmer

Hour 4
Burn After Reading, by Carter Burwell
The Road, by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
X-Files, by Marc Snow
Antarctica, by Vangelis